Have you ever experienced a WordPress error along the lines of :
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 53269 bytes) in /home/sitename/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 965
I’ve always assumed a bad plugin was the culprit so I’d deactivate plugins until the error went away. If only I’d paid more attention to the actual Error Message.
It turns out that, depending on your webhosting provider, you may be able to increase the WP_MEMORY_LIMIT in your ‘wp-settings.php’ file. In my case, increasing the limit from 32 to 64 resolved the pesky error.
Try changing the ‘wp-setting.php’ file from :
if ( !defined(’WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’) )
define(’WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ‘32M’);
to
if ( !defined(’WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’) )
define(’WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ‘64M’);
If you still have the error, then you may have a bad plugin afterall.
Need more details?
Here’s more info from the WordPress Codex on WP_MEMORY_LIMIT:
Not sure how to edit your php files? Here’s the WordPress link for that:
A Content Management System (CMS) is software that allows website text, images or other information known as content to be stored separately from the web site design. This makes it easier for non-technical end users to maintain the website without having to know design or programming languages or hire a webmaster to do the job for them.
All of the open source Content Management Systems, like Drupal, Joomla and WordPress offer:
- A browser based Graphical User Interface (GUI) or What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) editor for maintaining the site content. The editor is much like using MS Word.
- Free or low cost themes or skins which allow you to customize the look and feel of your website without having to design the site from scratch.
- Free or low cost plug-in applications or widgets like subscription services, calendars or podcast tools which add functionality to your site without you having to do programming.
WordPress as a CMS
At Take 2 Digital, we are big fans of WordPress as a Content Management System. WordPress, named as the best Overall Best Open Source CMS in 2009, started out in 2001 as just a blogging system, but has evolved to be used as full content management system.
Who Needs a Content Management System?
Any business:
- Who wants a dynamic, interactive website.
- Who has outgrown the free templates provided by the various web hosting companies.
- Looking to improve their Search Engine rankings, grow the business or reach new customers.
- Needing an easy way to integrate their website with Social Networking tools like Facebook, Twitter and blogs.
- Without an in-house web design / development team. Or, a business whose in-house team is too busy too maintain the client facing website.
Contact us to get your very own CMS.
At Take 2 Digital we make Content Management Systems easy.
At Take 2 Digital, we are smitten with WordPress.
Maybe it’s:
- The energetic young founder, Matt Mullenweg who’s swept us off our feet or
- The community spirit that appeals to the community organizers in us or
- That WordPress is free and easy to develop
Or, perhaps it’s all of the above plus other great features like:
- Automatic archiving and versioning – instead of having to replace last month’s newsletter with the current version, you can automatically keep and display both versions.
- Ability to ‘post date’ articles so you can store up items for later release.
- Because it was built on blogging software, WordPress is Search engine friendly.
- Allows participation through comments so that your customers can interact with you online.
- Easy to administer role based security allowing your site to have different tiers of user authorization like subscribers, authors or administrators.
- Free support through a community of developers and users.
For even more goodies, check out the official WordPress features list.
